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published in Business Day September 27, 2007
President Thabo Mbeki and the men around him have repeatedly blocked an independent investigation into the arms deal scandal and, in particular, his role as chair of the cabinet’s arms deal subcommittee.
This is illustrated by Mbeki’s dismissal of Judge Willem Heath, his destruction of constitutional checks and balances and the insertion of a critical whitewashing paragraph in the joint investigating team report.
Business Day, 2007 September 26
It is an exercise in futility to expect that governments — and the Mbeki government in particular — will do anything to oust Robert Mugabe and his thugs.
Governments are part of the problem, rather than the solution, (“Neighbours’ silence on Mugabe the true tragedy,” September 21).
In addition to 4 million Zimbabwean refugees, 5-million Congolese are dead in “Africa’s first world war”. The United Nations reported in 2001 that Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and Mugabe were “the godfathers,” but our government deliberately took no action.
This month’s Leadership magazine contains an excerpt from Eye on the Money, which I’ve secured as a pdf.
The excerpt, from Chapter 1, describes the day when judges Andre Blignaut and Ntlupheko Yekiso delivered their judgment – against me – in the Cape High Court, and gives some background to the events leading up to the ruling.
The Cape Coast Chamber of Commerce invites you to Milnerton Library on Wednesday October 3, 2007 where I shall speak about the arms deal and my book Eye On The Money.
Time: 17:30 to 19:30
Cost: R40 for members, R50 for non-members
To Book: phone 021-551-9569
10% of proceeds will go to the Chamber’s social outreach programme.
